Word: 1970s
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What were your ambitions for the Continent? At the beginning of the 1970s, I was in the Cabinet of French Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas and I watched the dollar wavering, the end of the Bretton Woods system and the first oil crisis. Faced with all that, I saw Europe as helpless, disabled and divided. I said to myself that, if this continues, it will undoubtedly mean the decline of Europe. The first measures I proposed as President of the European Commission permitted us to unite and react together against great shocks from outside, and to become more competitive...
...Initial reports attributed his death to stress over the humiliating result. Perhaps, went the speculation, Woolmer, who played 19 tests for England in the 1970s and '80s and was widely respected as an astute and passionate coach, had taken his own life. Or perhaps the grinding stress of coaching one of cricket's most mercurial teams and dealing with its passionate and insanely demanding fans had finally gotten to him. Woolmer, said former South African bowling great Alan Donald, "gave his life to cricket and probably paid...
Dubbed "The Concrete Abstract," the forthcoming newspaper draws its name and motivation from a similar project that Matherites engineered in the 1970s and early 1980s, according to Nikhil G. Mathews ’08, the recently elected Mather House historian who has been spearheading the current effort...
Akçam, who was sentenced by a Turkish Court in the 1970s to nearly nine years in prison for his writing but escaped after one year to political asylum in Germany, used last night’s opportunity to present recent research that he claims shows that the Armenian genocide was a real and deliberate act by Turkish leaders during World...
...still there, as is front man Iggy Pop’s distinct “singing” style (read: occasionally on pitch, sometimes screaming). But the overall sound doesn’t feel as unique as it must have in the band’s heyday in the 1970s. The album does share some elements with 1973’s seminal “Raw Power.” There’s the tendency of tracks to end long after they should, and for songs such as “She Took My Money” to feature...